Ace. The Pulp Fiction one has been a favorite of mine for a while now. Especially the last line.posted by slimepuppy at 3:26 PM on March 20, 2008

Pulp fiction: excellent.
Fight club: terrible. Impact? With a drop shadow? What the hell were they thinking?posted by matthewr at 3:31 PM on March 20, 2008

the animations offer a great in-joke to those who have seen the film.

Yeah, that hilarious joke about the outmoded stuttercam and crufty look? I would love to see someone do a piece about Fight Club that wasn't handcuffed to 9 year old Fincher style choices. That was artless. Jack's font wasn't right at all, imo.posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 3:33 PM on March 20, 2008

The lebowski ones were so-so, but as in-jokes go, I thought the first one was interestingly reminiscent of the neon-on black credit sequence in a mildy amusing way.posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 3:37 PM on March 20, 2008

So many of these miss out on why the Pulp Fiction one worked: the original actually captured the back and forth between the characters extremely well. The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia one isn't bad, but the Kill Bill one seems a lot like someone mimicking the style of the Pulp Fiction one without thinking about why the actual scene worked in the movie. (Plus the choice of typeface is less than inspired.) The "fuck a stranger in the ass" also suffers a bit from the same syndrome. The type is pretty much all the same size, the visual transitions aren't as interesting as the Pulp Fiction one, and with the latter clip in particular, you don't really get a good sense of the interplay between the people in the scene.posted by chrominance at 3:56 PM on March 20, 2008 [1 favorite]

I am a very visual person, so I often get mental images of words while they're being spoken (either by me or someone else). It's a little weird to watch these...kind of looks like what's going on in my head all the time...but usually my brain uses a typewriter font.posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 4:33 PM on March 20, 2008

That was better than I expected. Cool.posted by oddman at 4:40 PM on March 20, 2008

I liked the Fight Club one a lot. I couldn't make it through the Pulp Fiction one...probably because I'm burned out on that particular "classic" scene.

For some reason, this kind of stuff pleases me. Especially when it's a .gif file.posted by nevafeva at 9:52 PM on March 21, 2008

I wish they had been a bit more original (than just being animation.)
The office/dwight speech? how about more flicker/old film (a la mussolini)?

When I was watching the V speech, I was dying for the letter V to stand out and be different (and every 5 letter word as well.)

It's seems that they saw the pulp fiction one, and didn't push themselves hard enough. I thought the fight club one was decent...and I liked the images...but from the moment of burn, it would have been more 'true' to have 'jacks' speech (his screams) inside the shape of the lips.posted by filmgeek at 6:17 AM on March 22, 2008

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